Annual herb;culms erect, ascending from a prostrate or geniculate base, nodes glabrous; leaves acuminate at apex, ventrally pubescent, dorsally glabrous, sheaths loose glabrous ligules membranous;racemes few to many, corymbosely arranged on a short common axis, erect or spreading, rachis flat, narrowly winged, base thickened and with few long white hairs;spikelets in pairs, one short and the other long pedicelled, oblong lanceolate; acute;lower glume small, hyaline, scale like, upper glume narrow, sparsely hairy, 3-nerved; lower floret sterile, upper floret bisexual, lemma pale, elliptic-acute, shining, margins clasping the palea; anthers 3; caryopsis whitish, cllipsoid.